D+C Contemporary is a digital platform managed by Donna Banks and Cecily Ferguson that exhibits works by emerging and established international artists. Donna and Cecily met in graduate school while attending Howard University in Washington, DC. Since meeting, they have collaborated on a number of art projects working with artists, collectors, embassies, cultural centers, and small businesses.

Their mission is to examine the intersection of both the beautiful and the provocative in contemporary art and design.

Donna Banks brings an interdisciplinary approach to curating, public engagement, and research.

She is a cultural scholar, educator, curator, and strategist whose work explores diasporic histories, cultural representation, and underrepresented narratives. With formal training in art history, museology, visual anthropology, history, and cultural studies, Donna brings an interdisciplinary approach to research, exhibition development, and public engagement.

Her experience spans higher education, museums, galleries, and cultural organizations in the United States and internationally. She develops programs and multidisciplinary projects that connect creative practice with public engagement, collaborating with artists and institutions to bring diverse stories and perspectives to wider audiences.

Cecily Ferguson is a curator, writer, and creative collaborator, passionate about the contemporary art scene.

She has been professionally involved with various aspects of the art world in The States. While living in Pittsburgh and Washington, DC Cecily studied art history. She also worked for various art galleries and non-profit organizations including: UMOJA African Arts Company (Pittsburgh), The International Child Art Foundation (Washington DC), The John F. Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Four Winds Gallery (Pittsburgh), Parish Gallery (Washington DC), West Village Gallery (Durham NC), and Guarisco Gallery (Washington DC). In addition, she has contributed essays to the Stockholm based art magazine C-Print and the London based art magazine Mongoos.

Since 2000 her area of specialty has been The Caribbean and Latin America but in 2007 while working for Parish Gallery she became interested in Sweden and Scandinavia.  In 2009 she attended School of the Art Institute of Chicago and while there she focused on migration and diaspora identities connected to the Caribbean, Latin America and Sweden. Upon completing her MA thesis titled A Different Light: Creolizing Swedish Modernism she move to Sweden for love and also her career. And as of 2016 she has expanded her geographical interest to include Japan.

Cecily is currently the owner of a curatorial | creative studio called Kreativ Collabs, the writer and editor for an art and lifestyle blog called Creole Konst and is a docent for Skövde Konst Museum.